To wash your mouth with soap is the traditional form of corporal punishment that consists of placing the same soap, or cleansing agent, inside a person's mouth so that the person will feel it, encouraging what most people find unpleasant. experience. This form of punishment was very common in the United States and Britain from the late 19th century to the 1960s.
Wash mouth with soap is most commonly used in response to profanity, lying, biting, tobacco use, or disrespect orally. It serves both as a symbolic "cleansing" following offense, as well as acting as a deterrent because of reproach. It is usually used as a child discipline or school discipline, and is more often used by mothers than fathers.
This penalty is still advocating at this time, although its use has been significantly reduced in recent years for the method of discipline that is not considered violent or embarrassing. In addition, consumption of soaps and detergents can have serious health consequences, and people who use this form of punishment can face legal sanctions.
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Technique
Wash mouth with soap is basically defined by the introduction of soap, or a cleansing agent such as soap, into the oral cavity. Common methods used for this purpose include placing a bar of soap in a person's mouth and forcing them to hold it there, chewing it, and/or swallowing it; forcing someone to drink liquid soap or other cleaning fluids or shaking such liquids in their mouths; and use a toothbrush to brush cleaning products that are used into the teeth and tissues of a person's mouth.
Security
Wash your mouth with soap is meant to be unpleasant, but it is not usually meant to cause death or serious harm. Nevertheless, many people use the above mentioned techniques with very limited knowledge about the safety of swallowing their preferred cleaning agent. Agents tend to cause serious harm if swallowed, including many automatic dishwashing detergents and laundry detergents. Even plain soap bars and liquid hand soap can cause harmful effects including vomiting, diarrhea, irritation of the lining of the mouth and digestive tract, and in rare cases, lung aspiration. This is especially true if the product is digested in large quantities.
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History
One of the earliest recorded uses forced others to swallow soap as punishment appeared in 1832 Legal Tester, where it was noted that a married couple "constantly quarreled, and that one night, in the man's house, he found his wife drunk, [...] saw a piece of kitchen soap lying on the ground near it, he stuffed it into his wife's mouth, saying, "She has plenty of water to wash, now she has to drink a little soap".
In the 1860s, Annual Annual Volume of Aunt Judy featured the main characters forced to eat a bar of soap as punishment for constantly failing to cleanse, as the climax of the story entitled "Scaramouches at School".
In 1872, the Chinese Recorders and Journal of Missionaries stated that the practice of washing a child who heard the oath was recorded by an American colleague, and should be recommended to his colleagues in the East as well.
In 1873, a principal in Mahaska, Iowa, was listed as punishing a boy in his class for engaging in chewing tobacco by washing his mouth with soap. Many examples then say how native Filipinos or Lakota were punished for speaking their mother tongue with similar sentences.
A study of "1898 in moral education", published by the Journal of Genetic Psychology, notes that whipping, withdrawing privileges, lectures, sent himself to a room and washing the subject's mouth with soap, salt or pepper, are the most likely penalties for preventing violation in the future. Two years later, an official of the New York State Department of Social Welfare filed a complaint against Rochester Orphan Asylum noting that "I find, as it is alleged, that children's mouths have been washed with foam, but not, as is also accused, of ashes and water, that such punishment is enjoined for obscene or indecent language ". At the beginning of the 20th century, this practice was also recorded at the Maryland State Reformatory for Women as a punishment for violation of the rules.
In the 1940s, washing the mouth with soap was a hoax ritual in the Royal Navy.
In the 1950s, several American schools decided to clean their mouths with soap as a legal punishment.
In 1953, Wisconsin assessed Harvey L. Neelan fined Miss Mertz $ 25 for his drunken dirty words and noted that he should be asked to wash his mouth with soap. In 1963, Michigan judge Francis Castellucci ordered Louis Winiarski, who was found using obscene language around women and children, to wash his mouth with soap before leaving the courtroom. A similar case in October 1979 saw a New Yorker choose to wash his mouth with soap, rather than serving a ten-day sentence in prison for his irregular behavior and obscenities.
In 1977, the National Criminal Justice Reference System published a report defending the use of physical punishment in schools, where a school administrator noted that he documented 200 cases, during his 13-year career, using corporal punishment, noting "It's not just using a paddle in every instance, but if you shake a student, if you take a student, if you wash the students' mouths with soap, it is a corporal punishment under the legal definition ".
In 1982, the Journal of Youth and Adolescence enrolled the practice, in addition to pedaling and cutting hair as a "moderate" punishment for children, under "heavy" punishment laws such as lashes. Similarly, in 1996, the American Academy of Pediatrics classified it as an alternative to hit.
In 2006, students at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts conducted a thoroughly examined study of the ability of punishment to curb the use of indecency by interviewing colleagues for their memorable care, noting that the most frequently reported parental reactions were verbal reprimands (41 %). Soap in the mouth is mentioned in 20% of episodes, and corporal punishment is described in 14%.
Legal consequences
There are a number of cases of arrests, suits and civil suits arising from domestic discipline of washing the mouths of others with soap; often arises from the perception of abuse of authority of parents by an outsider.
In the United States, there are often differences between individual states as well; for example North Carolina specifically instructed its social worker that "washing the mouth of a child with soap is not considered an extreme measure", but the Florida Children's and Family Department took two mother's children permanently after she forced her 8-year-old daughter to chew soap after saying the word F, which leads to an allergic reaction.
Important case
- In 1890, a Mormon father filed a complaint to the school board in Brooklyn, Nevada noted that a teacher had washed his daughter's mouth with soap, after she lied to the teacher.
- In March 1949, twenty years before the appearance of a false divorce, Mary L. Muick was given a divorce against her husband Joseph Muick in San Jose, California after she avenged her own threats to wet her son's mouth for foul language. at a family gathering by forcibly washing her mouth with soap.
- During the 1960s and 1970s, Sister Marie Docherty was accused of treating the wrong girls in her care at Nazareth House in Aberdeen, Scotland; including washing their mouths with soap if they swear.
- In November 1980, an African American mother in Albany, Georgia appealed to the school board to fire a Caucasian teacher who had washed her daughter's mouth with soap. When the school refused, 500 black families chose a school board.
- The executed killer Steven W. Bowman allegedly washed his girlfriend's mouth with soap in July 2000, when she mentioned the names of her other romantic partners; before killing him.
- A teacher in Rochester, New York was suspended in 2004 for washing a student's mouth for using vulgar language. After the suspension, his parents and family members sign a petition in favor of his actions and ask him to be reinstated.
Other well known instances
- Senator Washington R. Lorraine Wojahn notes that his mother washed his mouth with soap when he was five years old, for trying some chewing tobacco his father.
- Inventors of Americans, activists and transgender women Lynn Conway's parents washed her mouth with soap to say she was female.
- Former president George W. Bush remembers that his mother had washed his mouth with soap to "get fresh" with him.
- After Toledo, Ohio Mayor Carty Finkbeiner used indecent words at a press conference in 1998, presidential candidate Ralph Nader sent him a bar of soap to wash his mouth. After Jane Fonda said "cunt" to NBC's "Today" in 2008, Concerned Women for America sent her a 1.5-gallon bottle of soap with instructions for "drinking the whole bottle".
- In 2009, Dr. Phil suggested to Sarah Jessica Parker that she washed her mouth with soap every time she craved tobacco.
See also
- Hotsaucing
- Castor oil
- Grounding (disciplinary techniques)
- Spoiled child
- Tantrum
- Teen rebellion
- Parenting time
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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